The impact of post-processing on spinal cord diffusion tensor imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 377-385

  Mohammadi, Siawoosh ^a   Freund, Patrick ^a,b   Feiweier, Thorsten ^c   Curt, Armin ^b   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DTI; Eddy current and motion correction; Fractional anisotropy; Robust fitting; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; SPINAL CORD; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84873296556     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.058     Document Type: Article

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